[OE-core] sstate-cache and making a package "host-dependent"

[Martin Jansa]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 06:39:20PM +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> 
> On Wednesday 10 July 2013 15:05:23 Mike Looijmans wrote:
> > I added a buildserver that also exports its "sstate-cache" directory, so
> > that other build machines can grab their stuff from it. This works fine,
> > but I have one problem. Some packages are meant to be dependent on the
> > system that built it. I want to enforce that each build machine creates
> > its own package, and does not grab it from the sstate-cache of the
> > central server.
> > 
> > For example,
> > 
> > $ cat recipes-core/meta/distro-feed-configs.bbappend
> > PRINC="1"
> > DISTRO_HOST_NAME ?= "${@os.uname()[1]}"
> > DISTRO_FEED_NAME ?= "feed"
> > DISTRO_FEED_PREFIX = "topic"
> > DISTRO_FEED_URI =
> > "http://${DISTRO_HOST_NAME}/${DISTRO_FEED_NAME}/${MACHINE}"
> > 
> > 
> > The purpose being that the host name of the machien that built the image
> > ends up in the opkg config files. This works just fine.
> > Now that we have a central server, all images on all build hosts grab
> > the package from the sstate-cache server, resulting in the feed pointing
> > to the central server instead of the private one, which is not what I
> > wanted to happen.
> > 
> > After reading the documentation, I added the following line to the recipe:
> > 
> > PACKAGE_ARCHS[vardeps] = "DISTRO_FEED_URI"
> > 
> > This did not have the desired effect. The package is still retrieved
> > from the cache, and not rebuilt locally. Even if I clean and force a
> > rebuild of the distro-feed-configs package, the package that ends up in
> > the image is still the one from the central server.
> > 
> > What am I missing here?
> 
> I think distro-feed-configs (from meta-oe, not OE-Core) is for package 
> installation on the target, and has nothing to do with shared state.
> 
> I'm not sure if it's entirely appropriate, but you could take a similar 
> approach to the one we use for preventing native sstate packages from mixing 
> across different distributions (mostly to sidestep host glibc version 
> dependency problems) - set SSTATE_EXTRAPATH to some value for the recipes you 
> don't want to share and then the packages will go into a subdirectory named 
> with that value; you could then delete these automatically from the server.

I would try to add
DISTRO_HOST_NAME[vardepvalue] = "${DISTRO_HOST_NAME}"

that way each builder should create own sstate archive.

use bitbake-diffsigs path-to-distro-feeds.sigdata-file to check that
value of os.uname is included in signature.

Regards,

-- 
Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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